Pythonic way to create a long multi-line string

Question

I have a very long query. I would like to split it in several lines in Python. A way to do it in JavaScript would be using several sentences and joining them with a +<

Answer 1

I find that when building long strings, you are usually doing something like building an SQL query, in which case this is best:

query = ' '.join((  # note double parens, join() takes an iterable
    "SELECT foo",
    "FROM bar",
    "WHERE baz",
))

What Levon suggested is good, but might be vulnerable to mistakes:

query = (
    "SELECT foo"
    "FROM bar"
    "WHERE baz"
)

query == "SELECT fooFROM barWHERE baz"  # probably not what you want